finagler

IPA: fʌnˈeɪgɫɝ

Examples of "finagler" in Sentences

And you make Grandpa sound like a finagler and a gambler.
In the 1975 film "Three Days of the Condor" he played another sinister figure - an amoral finagler for a federal spy agency - and got more good notices.
Funny how that conservative computer guru who was Roves data finagler happened to die in a plane crash the very day before he was subpeonaed to testify ...
STEIGER: To my mind, this guy has a great art collection, he's versed in everything and he had to be a finagler because somehow he kept his life fairly free within that kind of government.
A finagler is one who knows the ins and outs of power brokerage and favor exchange, who finds ways to exploit the weaknesses of others, who knows how to use indirection to gain leverage and win some small but useful advantage.
The play, written by Rattigan in 1963, takes place on an autumn evening in 1934 as Gregor Antonescu ( Frank Langella ), a finagler on the brink of economic collapse and arrest, visits the Greenwich Village apartment of his son, Basil (Adam Driver), for one last-ditch, furtive business meeting to save his own hide.